unknownseas | WEEK 1

Happy New Year! ... You're still here. Looks like The Captain wasn't lying when he said the murdering is now up to you. That, or you can all live here on your own. Regardless, it's time to settle in. The days start passing much less eventfully after that first one, and, well... on it goes, huh?

There might not be a whole cruise ship to explore just yet, but there are a variety of amenities available to all of you! Who ever heard of a boring cruise ship, anyway? As the week goes on, you might even start to see some of those strange coins appear for you!

Better buckle down and get to know your fellow passengers, though, if you want to stand a chance of weathering this storm.

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[ ooc: Welcome to peace week! Feel free to mingle (and investigate, if you like) to your hearts' content! Please ensure all investigation toplevels are marked accordingly, and otherwise enjoy! If you wish to talk to The Captain or Davy Jones, look here for the former and here for the latter! ]

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Sea serpents! Ships and planes going missing, and all sorts of monsters. It's a place you want to avoid no matter what.

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I dunno if this world we're in is a place where that all is true, but in mine it's not really that dangerous of a place. Just a lot of water.

If Mr. Constantine is correct, we've got the sea serpents down, and we're definitely missing and on a ship. ...what is a monster in your world, exactly?

[It's probably a rude question...]

I dunno at this point. Big reptiles, mostly. These big mysterious things that in the end turn out to be something else and very much not alive.

[Lost football mascots, too]

Edited 2021-01-27 16:33 (UTC)

I don't have anything other than old stories, either.

But if you do not know if it is true, then we also do not know if it is not true.

[Which means, sea serpents????? Yes???? Big snakey friends!!!]

That's...okay, you're right.

[You can't beat circular logic like that]

[Hmmmm!

Sylvando will worry about what planes are later...]

Erdrea has such a location, though it is called The Strand. It is a location out at sea that is shrouded in fog, and sea vessels often drift into it and become lost. While I was traveling with the Luminary, we ended up lost in there ourselves!

I certainly wouldn't consider it safe by any means, since we came across monsters and shipwrecks in there, but it wasn't impossible to escape from! We even ended up going back there a few times.

Why would you go back in there?

[Why someone would willingly go into a dangerously supernatural place once? Filbo doesn't know, but it's forgivable because maybe it happens by accident. Going several times? That doesn't seem great]

Because it wasn't all doom and gloom! We met a lovely mermaid by the name of Michelle there, and helped her reunite with a man who escaped the Strand in the past.

[He...seems a little melancholy about that, truth be told. It was very much a bittersweet quest.]

...okay.

[Sylvando needs to remember that a lot of things are probably fantastical to others here...]

Everything alright, darling?

Your life seems a little hard to follow.

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hypnowhip - 2021-01-27 17:42 (UTC) - Expand

onlyyoucan - 2021-01-27 17:52 (UTC) - Expand

That's actually kinda nice!

[Filbo seems really touched. Aw, that's great! Okay, for something like that, going into a dangerously supernatural place really can be worth it.

Once.

Because seriously, that still is not a great place to be in, be careful with your lives]

[It's fine. They're fine. Somehow they encountered worse on the open sea outside of the Strand.]

It was! Bittersweet too, but they did reunite in the end.

[oh my god MAYBE THE ENTIRETY OF THE SEA IN YOUR WORLD IS CURSED, SYLVANDO]

Too bad we're not on a trip to reunite lovers right now. That'd be better than killing anyone.

[Hmmm...there's something else this whole Bermuda Triangle thing brings to mind]

Since this triangle is where all this magical stuff happens, maybe the Captain found Davy Jones here.

Edited 2021-01-27 17:28 (UTC)

hypnowhip - 2021-01-27 17:39 (UTC) - Expand

I am eternally amazed you lot actually managed to accomplish anything without getting continually distracted by little old ladies having trouble crossing the street.

Edited 2021-01-27 19:47 (UTC)

Is it really so surprising? Your underlings weren't that difficult to avoid in the meantime.

They were not all mine, you know. There were definitely other factors involved.

[He hears all the talk about monsters in the water, and:]

How is that different from any other big bodies of water?

Bodies of water aren't known for having a lot of monsters...only that part of the sea and one lake are rumored to have them, and it's not even proven true!

[sure would suck if every big body of water was infested with nasty creatures sinking ships and bringing horror to wary explorers]

You're really sheltered if you think that. Are you from Iceland or something?

[Because Iceland is full of BABIES who can't handle the real world, or so Lalli thinks.]

What? No! I'm not even sheltered!

[He's a moderately worldly grumpus, thank you very much! Well, enough to be aware of the absence of news about monsters and the such in bodies of water]

I'm serious, there's not been any monster sightings at all. I know there's stuff out there that's yet to be discovered, but--

[Filbo goes silent. He was going to say that if such thing existed, anyone who had seen them or had proof about them would tell it all, but he stopped talking so suddenly his teeth pretty much clacked together. After a pause Filbo mutters:]

--okay, you may be right.

[A bit of a sudden 180°, but there he is, agreeing with Lalli. Maybe there are monsters in all big bodies of water]

Edited 2021-01-27 22:14 (UTC)

There is a Troll on this ship right now. You saw him when he showed up, didn't you?

[He is absolutely right and he knows it, but he wants to point it out so Filbo sees where he went wrong.]

If I'm hearin' that right, you've got a funny definition of trolls and seafood.

[Look, what do trolls have to do with tentacles???? Y'all are weird and your Bermuda triangles are weird and your sea shanties are also weird, no doubt.]

silentscout - 2021-02-01 20:24 (UTC) - Expand

Hmm. This Bermuda Triangle stuff sounds pretty convenient for what we've got, but does it change, like... time? Or the stars? Does it teleport people around?

[She's just saiyan. There's some baffling bullshit going on here and then there's the sea monsters and look, she's done her digital homework but paper books aren't as much her priority so far.

She should probably get to it....... eventually.]

I don't really feel missing. Just kinda kidnapped still.